Saturday 18 November 2017
November - Trebah Gardens
Jessica and I and two little dogs went on an adventure yesterday . My camera was playing up so I didn't manage to get very many good spontaneous photos .
So I put together a collage of pics and you can click to enlarge them if you like .
One of two beautiful Christmas Trees at Trebah .
We enjoyed a lovely lunch in the dog friendly zone of the restaurant ...I had ham salad and chutney in a huge brown roll and side salad for £4.95 and a glass of water and my friend had King Prawns and a hot chilli dip and delicious fat chips and a cup of coffee ..er not sure how much it came to ..but we were both very pleased with our meals , which set us up nicely for the long walk down to the beach .....and back . Actually there are so many lovely trees , shrubs and plants that we hardly noticed the steep walk back up hill .
We saw beautiful wild strawberries and ripe deep pink Lychee fruits which were falling all around us . Primroses, Squirrels , Buzzards , Pigeons and Pterodactyls swooped overhead . We saw a Plesiosaur in the lake ...see if you can find him in the top photo ! :)
Magnificent Bamboozles and sleepy Gunnera manicatas which had all been trimmed and each one with an upturned giant umbrella of a leaf to protect the crown from the frost , should we get any . Which reminds me ... I must wrap my outside tap !
The sun was setting through the Tree Ferns as we returned just as they were about to close . A very quick look at all the lovely Christmas goodies in the shop on our way out . ... you must go and see for yourself !
We must go again soon !
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November -Trebah Gardens
Late November - Cosmos
Just showing off our beautiful Cosmos flowers today !
It is 18th November and beginning to turn quite cold at night here in Mullion Cornwall . They are in a tub though and against a sunny South facing wall .
They also have a piece of string tied around them to give them a bit of support .
We will be growing more of these next year , they are so pretty .
Keeping the flowers coming by dead heading them . The ones out in the ground have finished weeks ago .
Thursday 9 November 2017
Cactus walking , munching snails !
First the good news..our little dog is home , doing fine and the tail is wagging again .
Then the bad news..I,ve been noticing sluggy snail trails on some of my cacti .
What is going on here ? !! How can a snail walk over a prickly cactus ?
I couldn't find it either.so it has slithered on , walked about and then slithered off and away again !
..and then I noticed this ! It has walked on , slithered over the top of it and eaten out just the growing tips ! Now I,m really annoyed ! Can I find the little nuisance .... no ...it has gone and is probably in hiding..waiting to come back again later .
It's not a very good idea to eat my cacti Mr Snail ! Some of my cacti are hallucinogenic !
O.k so I'll get a grip now ! I,ll have to put a couple of slug pellets into the pots . This has really spoiled the look of the plant..it will probably put out lots of new shoots or pups now , which is wonderful that it can do that and it will take some time to recover ...but ...... I am so annoyed !
Tuesday 7 November 2017
My Schlumbergeras are flowering !
Schlumbergeras flowering beginning of November 2017
Just a quick one as we are waiting to hear from the vet to come and collect our poorly dog from the animal hospital over in Falmouth .
I tried to do my embroidery but ... sigh ..I just can't concentrate on anything .
It cheered me up to see that my Schlumbergeras are coming into bloom .
They,ve been outside all summer and I brought them back into the porch a few weeks ago before the bad weather .
They are so pretty and worth waiting for !
Just a quick one as we are waiting to hear from the vet to come and collect our poorly dog from the animal hospital over in Falmouth .
I tried to do my embroidery but ... sigh ..I just can't concentrate on anything .
It cheered me up to see that my Schlumbergeras are coming into bloom .
They,ve been outside all summer and I brought them back into the porch a few weeks ago before the bad weather .
They are so pretty and worth waiting for !
Friday 3 November 2017
Ensete ventricosum " Maurelii "
I finally dug up my big Ensete ventricosum "Maurelii "/ the Red Abyssinian Banana .
It has been very happy on this North facing bank through the summer..but I know that it just would not survive through the Winter here..I have tried .
I,ve been going on about digging this up for weeks now and my friend gave me a gentle nudge to get on with it ! ( as you can see it was getting dark too ! ) and it is now up in the woodshed safe from the winter weather .
I will get a bag of new compost to mulch over it's roots , but probably wont water it at all now, until next spring , unless it is looking particularly sad .
This was an expensive plant and with a little care it can be planted out again early next Summer . This lovely Banana can get between 8-10ft high and 5-10ft wide ....but at some stage it will be too big for me to keep lifting . I have been taking pups from it and bringing them on , which will eventually replace it .
Musa Basjoo is the most hardy one ,but mine are still too small to plant out yet .
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